18 Years Later
A short girl with messy, knee length blonde hair sat on the old wooden bench of the train station. It was a tall, stone building with moss beginning to form on its sides. She stared into the perfectly gloomy sky, feeling the cold winter breeze nip at her neck. Her freckled face was scrunched up with sadness.
"Sunny? Are you okay?" a smooth and gleeful voice said. She turned her head to see a tall read head, with spiky hair pulled back into a loose braid, who wearing a long, black coat. She looked back at the sky.
"I don't want to," she answered in a simple monotone. The woman sighed and slid next to Sunny and held her shaking hand.
"You know leaving the only way to keep you out of the dangers of the war. Besides, Gloomsville is full of adventures. I lived there and loved every second of it." The red head forced her to look into her eyes. Sunny's green eyes were filled with water threatening to overflow. No, she would not leave. This wasn't fair! She loved her family and didn't want to live in a Victorian mansion with complete strangers. Why did life just have to toss her feelings out the window and never care about them again? "Look on the bright side," the woman said softly "that exact house is where I met..."
"SKULLBOY!" a loud, gravely voice screamed.
"Ahh!" The skeleton exclaimed with surprise. Their heads whipped around to see someone with long black hair tackling Skull Boy. They couldn't help but die laughing.
"Iris, I think he's suffocating," giggled the red head, jogging over to them with Sunny in hand.
"Oops, sorry, Skull Boy!" Iris immediately released her grip on him. He crawled away, gasping for air. "It has just been FOREVER...oh, Ruby!" and now Iris was on top of Ruby, hugging her.
"Iris you're going to kill someone," chuckled Skull Boy. After they were done practically attacking each other, Iris began looking around madly.
"Where's..." she began but was cut off by a loud guitar strumming.
"Right here!" announced Frank, running up to Iris and pecking her on the cheek. Everyone's jaws dropped. What exactly had they missed...? ALOT apparently. They nearly fell down when they saw Frank holding a six year old. And they almost passed out when they saw Frank...ONLY Frank...no Len...
"Oh, I think I have, uh, some explaining to do..." laughed Frank nervously. "Okay, so Len and I were testing Mr. Mumbles's new roller coaster and Len, being Len, decided he changed his mind and wanted to get off. The ride already started though and...yeah."
"...and now we are engaged!" Iris said excitedly, flashing her sparkly ring. Then, seeing their faces, added more detail. "...Oh, Len is fine by the way and this kid is his cousin's...we've just been taking care of him for a while," Everyone chuckled let out a relieved sigh. Len showed up a few minutes later into a dog pile of hugs. Soon, lightning lit up the sky indicating Misery's entrance.
"Ow," she muttered after being squeezed to death by everyone.
"You have kids?" asked Ruby.
"Not exactly...Misbegone don't play with matches!" Misery ordered, swiping away the match. Naturally, it just then lit on fire causing Misery to burst into flames. Skull Boy frantically dumped a bucket of water on her head to put her out. "This is what happens when your aunt is too lazy to send her triplets on the train herself." Muttered Misery.
Suddenly a faint choo choo came from the distance.